‘It is very sad for the individual concerned.

She would turn up at his home, which forced him to put it on the market. She once slept on a bench in Battersea Park, hoping to catch him on his early morning run. ‘I hope it doesn’t flare up again but you never know, do you?’ Nobody has called me a sex symbol since 2016.’) possibly have suffered during the pandemic?’ And the answer is, quite a lot, actually.įor a start, he had to move home because of a stalker who threatened his family, ignored police restraining orders and ended up in jail. You’re thinking: ‘What hardship can this former Parachute Regiment captain-turned-adventurer, explorer and sex symbol (‘Thank you! I’ll take that. Levison (pictured) said the lockdown puppy he bought to keep him company, sadly caught a parasite and died in December Lockdown has been hard for millions of people, and one of them is Levison Wood. ‘Well, it’s not my Tesco runaround, let’s put it that way.’ ‘The car is purely for summer fun,’ he says. And he drives a gorgeous 1974 silver Porsche. He also likes to paramotor, a hobby that is a form of powered paragliding in which ‘I basically strap a lawn mower engine to my back - very James Bond’. ‘I like to keep my rides to within two hours, otherwise it starts to get a bit dull and wet,’ he says. Today he is wearing what he calls his ‘double-denim’ shirt and trousers, with a Belstaff bike jacket and motorbike boots. Perhaps Levison, 39, is just a nice guy with good manners and a gift for accidental innuendoes that must have had the squaddies in fits, way back when. I suppose this is because they have to win the room and all the hearts and minds in it, because one day their lives may depend on it. Pictured: filming walking with elephantsĪlthough he now makes a living from writing award-winning travel books (he has nine bestsellers to his name) and making television adventure documentaries, he still has that officer’s poise, both physical and mental, which allows them to operate on a level somewhere above mere charm and into the realms of assumed dominion. Levison said he had to move home because of a stalker who threatened his family and ignored police restraining orders.

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